First,
send your wife to New York for the weekend.
Ooops, okay I didn’t really mean that first part. I might have thought it and then, you know,
it appeared on the paper. (That ever
happen to you?)
Buuut,
if she does want to visit friends or family on the weekend, don’t be begging
her not to. ;)
Head
for Ephraim which has a great little airport just East of Fish Creek on the
Northern tip of Door County peninsula.
Here’s a zoomed in view.
Land
at Ephraim and take the bike out.
From
here it’s a 3 mile ride to Peninsula State Park. When you get there, take the Sunset
trail. It’s a 10 mile loop along the
lakeshore and through the woods resplendent in fall colors.
After
the bike ride, head over to Wild Tomato.
(I’ve thoughtfully labelled it on the map for you.) It’s right across the street from the
entrance to Peninsula State Park. Here,
you order yourself a Cowboy Burger (big burger, cheddar cheese, onion straws,
bacon and BBQ sauce) with a side of baked macaroni. Now, it’s VERY important that you do
this. The idea is that you want to keep
your ying and yang in balance and given the 13 miles of bike riding exercise
you just inadvertently got oohing and ahhing over fall colors, this puppy is
JUST the ticket. Having polished off your
cowboy burger, hop back on the bike and pedal your somewhat fatter ass back to
the airport. Put the bike back in the
plane (you know it came out so chances are it’ll fit back in – trust me on this
– I’m an engineer).
Now
what you wanna do (provided the weather is CAVU (ceiling and visibility
unlimited) like it was last Saturday, is file a VFR flight plan on the way
back. This way it’s just you and the
scenery and the music. No annoying ATC
guy to kill the mood. Fly low along the
lake and take it all in, while singing along to Beatles songs in your headset
(I just got over a cold so singing along to Leslie Gore wasn’t working for me).
Before
you know it, home sweet home.
